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Fruit Sandwich

A sandwich made with buttered bread, jam, and optional chopped nuts.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Bread and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 7% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 27,232 recipes. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

Fruit Sandwich

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Spread butter on one side of each slice of bread.

  2. Spread your choice of jam on the buttered side of one slice.

  3. Add chopped nuts if desired.

  4. Top with the second slice of bread, buttered side down.

  5. Cut and serve, perfect for picnics.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together27,232 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Strawberry jam + curranttop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together20 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  3. Butter + peachtop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together860 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).

  4. Currant + peachtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together88 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  5. Bread + peachtop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together55 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Bread
Provides the structure that holds the filling together.
Butter
Adds fat and richness and keeps the bread from soaking up the jam.
Jam
Provides sweetness and fruity flavour as the main filling.
Chopped nuts
Adds crunch and texture against the soft jam and bread.

Swap the nuts

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bread, butter, strawberry jam, currant, peach):

  1. Almondfits better
  2. Pecansfits better
  3. Peasfits better
  4. Nutsthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bread, butter, strawberry jam, currant, peach. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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